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Well, I am hijacking this thread. This just has to be built! What an absolutely wonderful way to throw away what would amount to a million bucks today! In my time with the General, I surely don't recall ever hearing a peep about this thing. Probably did second hand and dismissed it as a bad joke. .

25 years too late for Woodstock but would blend in nicely still in Sausalito, Roswell, and that other "weirdo" town in NM that slips my mind with all the hippie burnouts.

If he had built this thing available in the mid 70's in the golden years of trucking, you can sure bet it would have been in a movie. Hollywood would have loved this. Convoy's Pigpen would have lost the Cruiseliner to this for sure.

If I ever thought there was not a single cell of discernment left in that fried gray matter remaining between my ears, it has just been validated it still exists and works. "Not even I would do this". Thought about similar? Absolutely. Now maybe I do bounce back and forth between genius and insanity but this guy crossed the line and never looked back.

But hey, he created "something" (potentially) useful and engaged the brain and hands. Far worse things have been done with that much time and money.

The call will go out soon for hopeless glue bombs and cleaning out of your scrap boxes! Meanwhile, I might just see if this dude is still around. He might like a 1/25 version of it. Then again......

Oh, did anybody notice what appears to be a double bunk IH 4070 beside it?

Just a brief progress update. Starting to take shape. Really need dimensions of seat cushions from a 1/16 KW or Pete if someone can. Lugnut is getting to the point of wanting to have a place to sit. Dont need base dimensions as a functioning suspension is planned.

For what it is worth, the trick of ultra thin superglue over balsa works great.

Must admit a partialness to the "true" White Western Stars. Growing up in the southeast US back "in the day", to see one of these was a definite "WHOA!". Even more of a treat than Brockways, Diamond Reo's, or Marmons. And that black/rainbow scheme was just so cool. WWS had some truly original paint jobs on the conventionals and COE's. Well done pulling off a very complex scheme!

We had a huge construction company that had scores of White "Construcktors" in dumps and mixers. About the same as the above Autocars appearance wise. Anybody ever rebrand an Autocar into one of those?

Trucktrader.com usually has some good pix. Be sure and look at their "auctiontime" section as well. Hanks Trucks also is a good ones. Or just spend some time looking at some of the multipage posts on "workbench" section here.
Don't get hung up too much specifically looking for a Pete COE. The basics are the same regardless of make/model.

One thing I noticed. Might want to double check your exhaust manifolds. Looks like they may be flip flopped.

Well, curiosity killed the cat. It was back to the cab and seeing if Lugnut could hang a door without hurting himself in the process. Door panels are just laying in place for paint later on. "And how did curiousity kill the cat?" you may ask? Look close at the outside of the door. Seems someone forgot to cut the hole for the exterior door handle before mounting it. Nice to be able to blame it on Lugnut. Raggafraggabragga......

Overall, certainly not as clean as many of the precision works shared by others, it has the much sought after PRIMARY objectives. DURABLE and CHEAP. The "drip rail", like the weatherstrip, is a piece of baling wire and while hopes were to run it down lower in the front, due to hinge placement and resulting door swing, interference became a problem. Hopes of an external "fake" piano hinge to help hide the resulting cutout also fizzed as it would result in a door bind. Geometry was never a strong suit.

As this thing is pretty largely a free hand, hack job full of hip shooting, it might come down to having a dark color "stripe" or something to help cover the exposed portion. On the good side is that if the door is "open" it is not visible.

Thoughts are to use some magnets to help keep the doors closed if dreams of having it an RC come to pass to keep them from bouncing open. We certainly would not want Lugnut to fall out and suffer further traumatic brain damage.

And more brainstorming on the fenders continues seeking something to "repurpose" as a starting point.. A stroll through second hand stores and "kitchen plastics" in the dollar stores are getting us closer to finding something. Some kitchen utensil storage trays (like those used to hold forks, spoons, and knives) might have potential. Or possibly some funky looking shampoo bottles. Getting closer........

Moving forward, managed to get a bit of paint on the instrument panel so now it is on to putting in some lighting and gauge faces.

In bigger news, giving the cab and doors a rest and trying to hack away on the hood (less fenders and grille surround). Closer look at the 1:1 hood reveals a long forgotten taper. So I took the existing sides (just sheet plastic), plopped a second layer on top and went in with a piece of balsa to try and recreate the taper. A model airplane buddy suggested slobbering the balsa in ultra thin superglue and then sanding for better paint finish. I may go back and do that but will do a bit more before getting to that point. Anyone ever done this? He is definitely a high end RC flyer with some nice works so who am I to poo poo it.

I think you can figure out where we are going on the air cleaner. The cap is a frame bolt cover picked up at a truckstop for such a time as this. It is a little "big" compared to the chunky little thing standard on GMC's, but works just too well and does not look like the ones used by KW or Pete. JC Whitney air cleaner perhaps? It may not fly as the fenders will have to clear but it would not be too hard to make a bit shorter.

Meanwhile, Lugnut is dumpster diving and calling in favors trying to find something to repurpose for use as fenders.

I am working on a 1/16 GMC General largely scratch built and want to see if anyone can help me with some spoke wheels in 1/16. Front and rears. High end resin is out due to budget unless someone has botched or prototypes needing lots of rework.

OR.....if anyone can think of a low priced "toy" that might have something that could be made to work.